North Sydney BearsSydneySydney (/ˈsɪdni/ ( listen))[7] is the state capital of New
South
WalesWales and the most populous city in
AustraliaAustralia and Oceania.[8]
Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds the
world's largest natural harbour and sprawls about 70 km
(43.5 mi) on its periphery towards the Blue Mountains to the
west, Hawkesbury to the north and Macarthur to the south.[9]
SydneySydney is
made up of 658 suburbs, 40 local government areas and 15 contiguous
regions
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Quentin Pongia
Quentin Lee Pongia[2] (born 9 July 1970) is a New Zealand former rugby
league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s who represented his country.
He is the grandson of fellow Kiwi international Jim Calder and his
sister Megan Tahapeehi has also represented the Kiwi Ferns.[3]Contents1 Playing career
2 Post playing
3 References
4 External linksPlaying career[edit]
Originally from the West Coast, Pongia transferred east in 1988.
Registered and played for the Riccarton Knights Rugby League Football
Club in the
Canterbury Rugby LeagueCanterbury Rugby League competition, representing the
province in 1991 and 1992.[3][4]
Pongia later played for the Canberra Raiders. He also became a New
Zealand international and was selected to go on the 1993 New Zealand
rugby league tour of Great Britain and France, playing in all five
test matches. He played at the 1995 Rugby League World Cup
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Jim DymockJim DymockJim Dymock (born 4 April 1972) is an Australian former professional
rugby league footballer and coach. A
TongaTonga and
AustraliaAustralia national and
New South Wales State of Origin representative lock forward or
five-eighth, he played cllub football for Sydney's Western Suburbs
Magpies, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, Parramatta Eels, finishing his
career in
Super LeagueSuper League for the London Broncos. Pay then embarked on a
coaching career, becoming head coach f the Tongan national team
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Jarrod McCrackenJarrod McCracken (born 27 March 1970) is a New Zealand former rugby
league footballer of the 1990s. He is a former captain of the New
Zealand national rugby league team[3] and is the son of New Zealand
rugby league international, Ken McCracken. McCracken played club
football in Australia, captaining both the
Parramatta EelsParramatta Eels and Wests
Tigers during his career which ended with a spear tackle which he
successfully sued for
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Parramatta Eels
The
Parramatta EelsParramatta Eels are an Australian professional rugby league
football club based in the
SydneySydney suburb of Parramatta. The Parramatta
District Rugby League Football Club was formed in 1947, and their home
ground was
Parramatta StadiumParramatta Stadium (formerly Cumberland Oval) until the
current season. Owing to the demolition of Pirtek Stadium, Parramatta
will play its home games at Stadium Australia, until the completion of
the
Western Sydney StadiumWestern Sydney Stadium in 2019.
It took thirty years for the club to make the grand final, which they
did in 1976 and 1977, losing on both occasions. However, this period
foreshadowed their most successful period in the early 1980s, when
they won four premierships and qualified for five grand finals in six
seasons. This was a golden era for the club and yielded their only
premiership titles
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Allan Langer
Allan Jeffrey "Alfie" Langer AM[5] (born 30 July 1966) is an
Australian former multi-award-winning rugby league footballer of the
1980s, 90s and 2000s who works as an assistant coach for the
Australian national team and
BrisbaneBrisbane Broncos. He was one of the
pre-eminent Half Backs of his era, representing
AustraliaAustralia on many
occasions and holding the record for most State of Origin appearances,
until being surpassed by his club, state & country team-mate
Darren Lockyer. Langer played most of his career as captain of the
BrisbaneBrisbane Broncos, with whom he won the 1992
Clive Churchill Medal and
Rothmans Medal, as well as four premierships and the club's player of
the year award a record five times
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1996 State Of Origin Series
The 1996
State of Origin seriesState of Origin series saw the 15th time that the annual
three-game series between the Queensland and New South Wales
representative rugby league football teams was contested entirely
under 'state of origin' selection rules. This series saw the return to
representative football of players who had signed with Super League,
after a court decision had delayed the beginning of Super League until
at least 2000. As a result, both teams were back to full strength, and
a new record was set for the highest State of Origin crowd at the
SydneySydney Football Stadium.
New South Wales were able to bounce back from the 3 - 0 whitewash of
the 1995 Series and win the 1996 series 3 - 0, reversing the result of
the previous year
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Grand Final
A grand final is a game that decides a sports league's championship
(or premiership) winning team, i.e. the conclusive game of a finals
(or play-off) series. Synonymous with a championship game in North
American sports, grand finals have become a significant part of
Australian culture. The earliest competitions to feature a grand final
were Australia's AFL (Australian rules football) and NRL (rugby league
football). They influenced other competitions such as soccer's
A-League, the National
BasketballBasketball League, netball's Suncorp Super
NetballNetball and European rugby league's
Super LeagueSuper League to adopt grand finals
as well
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Pick The Margins
In Australian rugby league,
FootyTAB is the name of the legal betting
agency, operating in both the NRL and the
Brisbane Rugby League since
betting on league was legalised.
BettingBetting is also offered on other
games including the pre-season, State of Origin and Test matches.
FootyTAB offers three types of bet, "Pick The Winners", "Pick The
Margins", and "Pick The Score".Contents1 Pick The Winners
2 Pick The Margins
3 Pick The Score
4 History
5 ReferencesPick The Winners[edit]
In Pick The Winners, punters are required to select all the winning
teams in a round. In order to make selection more difficult, points
start are given by a panel appointed by the TAB to the team considered
less likely to win. So that the scores could never possibly be exactly
equal after the start is added, points start are always given as half
points
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